Power outage during BIOS update. Black screen. Is Dell laptop bricked?

Tony_525 · Oct 1, 2017

Anythiing I can do?

captaincharisma · Oct 1, 2017

your best bet would be to contact Dell to see of there is any kind of BIOS rescue features like some premium motherboard have if a BIOS were to fail

ThatVietGuy · Oct 1, 2017

Probably nothing - it always says "do not turn off while BIOS is updating" for a reason.

captaincharisma · Oct 1, 2017

your best bet would be to contact Dell to see of there is any kind of BIOS rescue features like some premium motherboard have if a BIOS were to fail

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